Upcoming Trainings and Courses: June 13 Edition

Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people – with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our DigitalEd courses, as well as those from Mediabistro, NewsU, and others. If we’re missing anything, or you’d like to pay to promote your training in the “featured training” spot of our weekly post, please contact Mark Glaser at mark [at] mediashift [dot] org. Any non-MediaShift courses in the “featured training” slot are paid placements. Note: Course and training descriptions are excerpts, edited for length and clarity.

FEATURED TRAININGS

DigitalEd: How to Make Social Videos With Impact
The social video market is booming. And as the industry grows, who better than you to take your client’s storytelling to the next level? In this tutorial you’ll learn what it takes to make videos that can excite, explain, and entertain in a tight timeline that’s suitable for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.Dates: June 21, 2017Producer: MediaShiftPlace: Online with BigMarkerPrice: $39Register here!

How to Use Instagram as a Reporting Tool
With more than 600 million people on Instagram, this popular photo-sharing platform has become a powerful tool for journalists around the world. My Instagram followers tagged along with me as I reported stories for PRI’s The World and the BBC from mountain villages in Nepal, truck yards in Pakistan, the multi-cultural neighborhoods of South Africa, and more. In this course, you’ll learn the principles of using Instagram to report and photograph stories in the field. Whether you’re covering a local protest or trekking on a glacier with scientists, Instagram can help you generate interest in your story before your final report airs or goes to press.Featured Presenter: Sonia Narang, Multimedia JournalistDate and time: June 28, 2017, 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PTProducer: MediaShiftPlace: Online with BigMarkerPrice: $39Register here!

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How to Solve Legal Issues on Social Media
Gain an understanding of your rights and responsibilities when it comes to copyright, fair use and defamation on social media. Everyone’s a publisher now. Whether your company has a whole social media team or one person with a smart phone, you have to stay within your own lane on the information highway. It’s crucial to understand the dos and don’ts of copyright and libel law before posting. Learn how you can say everything you want and need to say without being exposed to legal risks.Date and time: July 12, 2017Producer: MediaShiftPlace: Online at BigMarkerPrice: $39Register here!

How to Measure Impact in Journalism
Learn how to measure impact in journalism and why it’s becoming a valuable and necessary skill in today’s newsrooms. Set yourself apart by knowing not only how to do work that drives real-world change, but also how to make sure that change gets noticed. Learn how to tell the story of your reporting just as effectively as you tell others’ stories.Date and time: July 19, 2017Producer: MediaShiftPlace: Online at BigMarkerPrice: $39Register here!

June 2017

SciFacts: Fact-Checking Claims About Science
We are bombarded by news releases, scientific studies and an evolving hierarchy of sources. How do you sort through what is real, what is noise and what is flat-out deception? During this special daylong event, participants will explore how journalists can combat misinformation and cover evolving or contradictory findings without reducing trust in the scientific method. They’ll also look at the evolving role of scientific reporting in public policy.Deadline: June 8, 2017
Date and time: June 16, 2017Producer: Poynter InstitutePlace: St. Petersburg, Fla.Price: Free

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Drone Journalism School
Drones can give your audience a unique understanding of the scale and scope of a story. Join Poynter and its partners at one of these intensive hands-on workshops designed to prepare you and your newsroom for telling unique stories with unmanned aerial systems.Dates: June 14 (online webinar) and Aug. 18-20Producer: Poynter InstitutePlace: Online or Portland, Ore.Price: $295

Reporting on Gender
The way to thorough, accurate and thoughtful reporting involves a better understanding of topics and how to navigate specific issues with care. This webinar will show you how to address gender issues. It will give you a better sense of how to understand gender-related topics and how to report on them. Learn how to develop a competence in writing about gender-related topics and why it matters.Dates: June 15Producer: Poynter InstitutePlace: OnlinePrice: $29.95

Law, Order and Algorithms: Understanding Racial Patterns in Police Data
The way to thorough, accurate and thoughtful reporting involves a better understanding of topics and how to navigate specific issues with care. This webinar will show you how to address gender issues. It will give you a better sense of how to understand gender-related topics and how to report on them. Learn how to develop a competence in writing about gender-related topics and why it matters.Dates: June 19Producer: Poynter InstitutePlace: OnlinePrice: $29.95

The Deep Dive: Investigative Journalism That Matters
The way to thorough, accurate and thoughtful reporting involves a better understanding of topics and how to navigate specific issues with care. This webinar will show you how to address gender issues. It will give you a better sense of how to understand gender-related topics and how to report on them. Learn how to develop a competence in writing about gender-related topics and why it matters.Dates: July 7, Aug. 3Producer: Poynter InstitutePlace: OnlinePrice: $399

10th Annual King’s Data School
The University of King’s College Summer School in Data Journalism is Canada’s premier annual boot camp in basic data journalism skills.Dates: June 19-23 and June 26-30, 2017Producer: University of King’s College Summer School in Data JournalismPlace: Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaPrice: Varies

Gigaom AI Workshop Tour
This is a hands-on introduction to AI that will give participants a working knowledge of what can be done with cloud-based AI offerings from IBM, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and others. This workshop is ideal for managers of all levels. By the end, everyone will have a working understanding of the capabilities of the key AI platforms, including what works right now and what doesn’t. The workshops are limited to 35 attendees.Date and time: June 20/June 29, 2017 (depending on the city)Producer: GigaomPlace: Austin/Boston/San FranciscoPrice: $995

JULY 2017 & BEYOND

Multimedia Reporting in Belize
This reporting trip will help students hone digital storytelling and production skills and improve researching, pitching and reporting skills on climate change, ocean and marine conservation and coastal erosion.Date and time: July 22-Aug. 5, 2017Producer: George Washington University and The Global Media ProjectPlace: BelizePrice: $7,903.18 (Estimate)

Digital Communication and Community Organization Summer School 2017
This summer school aims to rethink digital communication from the South. Classes will take place at the University of the Americas, Quito, and in Tena, Napo Province where we will participate in project-based collaborations with the Quijos Nationality. Project teams will get involved documenting Quijos language and cultural practices using digital communication tools and social media strategies. The project teams will include Quijos youth, who will co-direct the projects, developing media documentation and techniques for the documentation of the language and culture of the area.Date and time: July 24-Aug. 2, 2017Producer: Universidad de las AméricasPlace: Quito, EcuadorPrice: $1,200

Use Google Apps to Workflow Like a Pro
Learn how to measure impact in journalism and why it’s becoming a valuable and necessary skill in today’s newsrooms. Set yourself apart by knowing not only how to do work that drives real-world change, but also how to make sure that change gets noticed. Learn how to tell the story of your reporting just as effectively as you tell others’ stories.Date and time: July 26, 2017Producer: MediaShiftPlace: Online at BigMarkerPrice: $39Register here!

2017 Computer-Assisted Reporting Boot Camp
Learn to acquire electronic information, use spreadsheets and databases to analyze information and translate that information into stories. These boot camps are offered several times each year.Dates: Aug. 6-10, 2017Producer: Investigative Reporters and EditorsPlace: Columbia, Mo.Price: Varies

1440 Service Week
Service Week is four days each year in which the 1440 campus offers only professional development programming for the nonprofit sector.Dates: Sept. 4-8, 2017; Applications due May 1Producer: 1440 MultiversityPlace: Scotts Valley, Calif.Price: Free

COURSES ON DEMAND

Snapchat for Journalists and Storytellers
Snapchat has become a legitimate distribution outlet for the media, including by CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Vox, Mashable, BuzzFeed and many more. This training will explain why Snapchat is here to stay — and how journalists and storytellers can use it to strengthen their audience engagement.Producer: MediaShiftPlace: Online with BigMarkerPrice: $19

How to Get the Most Out of Content Analytics
Do you want to get the most out of your analytics? Not sure where to start? A majority of digital media professionals don’t even have a common definition of audience engagement within their organization. This training will give you an overview of ways to get the most out of your analytics—starting with the best ways to define audience engagement. There’s also a chance for one-to-one feedback from the instructor.Producer: MediaShiftPlace: Online with BigMarkerPrice: $19

How to Clean Up Your Audio in Video Production
Learn a few easy tips on how to clean up your audio using any microphones and noise reduction. Good video deserves good audio whether it is for TV or the web. This webinar will attempt to show broadcasters and reporters a few tips on gathering clean audio and a few tips on cleaning up audio that may have background “hiss” or “hum.” It’s hard to hear these with the human ear but a microphone picks up all, so don’t let a bad mic or bad mic placement ruin an otherwise great video production. This webinar is designed for anyone from the novice to the professional filmmaker and video creator.Producer: MediaShiftPlace: Online with BigMarkerPrice: $19

How to Launch a Killer Newsletter
Newsletter expert Jacqueline Boltik, who helped develop projects such as Ann Friedman’s Weekly and the LA Times’ newsletters and journalism professor Daniela Gerson, who recently created Migratory Notes, break down what you need to know to make your newsletter take off. Newsletters are the most direct way to build an audience, and are expanding. The Skimm, the Post Most, Lenny Letter, LA Times’ Essential Californian, #awesomewomen are just a few examples of the varied forms in which they are developing.Producer: MediaShiftPlace: Online with BigMarkerPrice: $19

Facebook Live for Journalists
In the changing world of social media, Facebook Live is the new big thing. Facebook’s own algorithm favors this live element, drawing more viewers and followers to your page. But, how can journalists use it effectively to get past the “gimmick” idea and make it something useful for viewers and for journalists? We’ll explore some of the best practices to maximize use and effectiveness of Facebook live for journalists and media organizations alike.Producer: MediaShiftPlace: Online with BigMarkerPrice: $19

Building Trust on Facebook
How can journalists stand out in a minefield of misinformation? See what 14 newsrooms learned when they used their social platforms to experiment with trust-building strategies. We’ll show you what they tried, what worked for different kinds of newsrooms and what totally fell flat.Producer: Poynter News UniversityPlace: OnlinePrice: Free

Getting Started With 360-Degree Video
Been seeing all those great 360° news stories but don’t know where to start? Let us help. News organizations across the world have adopted 360° technology in their reporting process. From breaking news to documentaries, newsrooms are bringing their readers and viewers closer to the story. Don’t let those pricey 360° video rigs intimidate you. Getting started with immersive storytelling is easier than you think. This training will walk you through the process of choosing the right equipment, from camera to rigging gear, planning your shoot and knowing if 360° video works for your story. You will learn how 360° videos are edited and how to pick the right platform to host your story.Place: Online with BigMarkerProducer: MediaShiftPrice: $19

Skills in 60: Instagram Marketing Starter Kit
Get Instagram savvy and build your brand! In just one hour, this course will teach you how to effectively market your Instagram presence by crafting visually creative content, analyze key metrics to grow your audience and navigate the ever-changing social media landscape.Place: OnlineProducer: MediaBistroPrice: $49

Infographics and Visual Data
When combined with a compelling narrative, infographics are one of the fastest and most effective ways to help viewers make connections and grasp complex topics. This course will teach you how to conceptualize, design, and execute infographics using free and simple tools.Place: OnlineProducer: MediaBistroPrice: $129

How to Build and Teach an Online Course
New technology and tools are transforming the learning experience and creating new opportunities — and challenges — for educators at high schools, community colleges, and four-year universities. In this online training, you’ll learn how to organize a course and plan modules in a learning management system — whether you’re transitioning an existing course or starting one from scratch. You’ll also get a chance to try out tech tools to enhance the online educational experience, understand how to develop relationships with students in an online environment and discover new techniques for creating robust discussion among students in the class.Place: onlineProducer: DigitalEd at MediaShiftPrice: $19

Smarter Audience Analytics for Journalists
Do you get bored reading your own analytics report? Are you only reporting numbers. Analytics are a powerful tool, but only reporting pageviews and other statistics doesn’t change how a newsroom operates. In this training, we’ll look at how you can put analytics to work for you. What is your baseline? What measures do you use to determine a post’s success? What do analytics tell you about your audience? How can you turn that insight into actionable items by your staff? This session will help you utilize analytics to learn from your audience and find ways to build on successes.Producer: DigitalEd at MediaShiftPlace: OnlinePrice: $19

How to Make News Bots Work For You
Robot journalism is one of the year’s hot topics as more media brands are experimenting with the automated delivery of news on mobile. Some bots are completely automated services that mimic a normal text conversation, but most involve some human intervention. In this online training, John Keefe, Senior Editor for Data News & Journalism Technology at WNYC, will explain how bots work and how journalists can use them to enhance their reporting and improve efficiency.Producer: DigitalEd at MediaShift and CUNYJ+Place: OnlinePrice: $19

An Introduction to DocumentCloud
DocumentCloud is a catalog of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web. Documents are contributed by journalists, researchers and archivists. We’re helping reporters get more out of documents and helping newsrooms make their online presence more engaging.Place: onlineProducer: Investigative Reporters & EditorsPrice: free

Marketing with Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr
Market your brand using Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. This course will give you the knowledge of each of these platforms and enable you to identify the most appropriate ways to implement them to meet your business objectives.Place: onlineProducer: MediabistroPrice: $149

Skills in 60: Build an Editorial Calendar for Social Media Channels
This in-depth short course will show you how to develop integrated editorial content calendars and establish a robust production and publishing strategy across all your social channels. The video lessons will guide you on how to plan, create, distribute and analyze your editorial calendar for long term success.Place: onlineProducer: MediabistroPrice: $49

Whose Truth? Tools for Smart Science Journalism in the Digital Age
As journalists, we ignore science not only at our own peril, but at the peril of our readers, viewers and listeners. In this course, you’ll learn to how make sense of scientific data and tell stories in ways that connect with your audience. You’ll get techniques and tips to improve your interviewing and reporting skills. You’ll also learn how to lift the veil from front groups to launch investigations based on informed fact-gathering. When you’re done, you’ll have a toolkit of ways to identify and overcome the barriers journalists face when reporting on science-related topics.Place: onlineProducer: Poynter’s NewsUPrice: free

Social Media Master Class Part IMediaShift’s Social Media Editor Julie Keck will lead you through using some of the most powerful publishing tools any media professional can use. You can learn how to optimize your feeds, post the right amount each day, and help promote your content or projects better. You can establish yourself as an authority using the right mix of social media platforms and skills. And most of all, it’s fun. Don’t be intimidated or overwhelmed by social media – you can do it!Place: onlineProducer: DigitalEd at MediaShiftPrice: $19

Social Media Master Class Part IIYou’ve established yourself on social media, but you want to grow your audience. How do you get people talking about your content without seeming too self-promoting? Learn to harness the power of #hashtags, run a popular live Twitter chat, find out what’s trending today and how to jump in at the right moment with the right content.
Place: onlineProducer: DigitalEd at MediaShiftPrice: $19

DigitalEd: Smartphone Filmmaking 101Whether you’re shooting coverage for your high-concept documentary, making a low-budget music video for your band, or shooting pick-ups for your corporate online PSA, there are a multitude ways to use your phone as a legitimate route for production. This training will illustrate the use of the iPhone as a low-budget professional production camera. We’ll include short practical tips on shooting techniques, emerging technology, apps and software alongside of traditional tips and tricks that can be added to a smartphone in order to make it a more robust production camera.Place: onlineProducer: DigitalEd at MediaShiftPrice: $19

When a Staff Isn’t a Staff: Managing Freelancers
In today’s freelance economy, more and more workers are seeing the benefits of working as a freelancer or contractor. But what does that mean for the businesses that employ them? With a lean staff, many publications rely on freelance contributors, so it’s to everybody’s benefit to make that relationship a good one. Good freelancer relationships don’t just fall out of the sky. In this webinar, you’ll learn what makes freelancers happy (it’s more than just money!), how to cultivate good freelance relationships, and best practices for managing a sprawling, remote staff. With successful freelancer management, you’ll enjoy loyal, capable contributors and a robust publication.Place: onlineProducer: Poynter’s NewsUPrice: $29.95

How to Crowdfund 10K
Learn how to raise $10,000 by designing a one-of-a-kind crowdfunding campaign. Learn how to set goals and better prepare yourself for a campaign launch. Once your campaign launches, you’ll be an expert on methods of raising the most money, and how to design a professional page.Place: onlineProducer: CreatorUpPrice: $30

How to Livestream on YouTube
Have you ever wanted to broadcast — live — but weren’t exactly sure how to do it, or what tools to use? Learn the technical nuts and bolds of how to livestream anything on YouTube, and how to market your show so people will see it.Place: onlineProducer: CreatorUpPrice: $25

How to Tell a Story to Build a Community
Do you need to build a following, but are not sure how to tell your story to grow your community? Learn how to tell a story that will help others relate to you and your mission to take action.Place: onlineProducer: CreatorUpPrice: $40

Verification: The Basics
When a violent protest, mass-scale accident, or natural hazard unfolds, information tends to get jumbled, causing fear and confusion. With the growing use of technology, we have witnessed innumerable false and fake stories being shared on social networks, including photoshopped images, or reuploaded diced videos from unrelated events in the past. With increasing frequency, journalists are required to master the skills and expertise to handle the information that circulates on the Internet and elsewhere. Complementing our recently launched resource, the Verification Handbook, this course will provide the basic knowledge and techniques of verification in the digital age.Place: onlineProducer: LearnoPrice: free

Your Photojournalism Survival Kit with Ron Haviv
Ron Haviv brings two decades of experience in building a photojournalism career on carefully laid groundwork. In this course, you’ll learn how to identify a captivating story and organize a plan for shooting it; how to create a budget and a pitch letter; and how to plan for any eventuality during the shoot, and cope with setbacks when they strike.Place: onlineProducer: Ron Haviv, Emmy-nominated photojournalistPrice: $79

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